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Hugh Bennett (film Director)
Hugh Bennett (1892–1950) was an American film director and film editor. He directed a number of entries in the Henry Aldrich series of films for Paramount Pictures.Erickson p.147 Filmography Editor * '' Just Another Blonde'' (1926) * '' Subway Sadie'' (1926) * '' The Patent Leather Kid'' (1927) * '' An Affair of the Follies'' (1927) * '' The Shepherd of the Hills'' (1928) * '' The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1928) * '' Outcast'' (1928) * ''The Divine Lady'' (1929) * '' Saturday's Children'' (1929) * '' Arrowsmith'' (1931) * '' Street Scene'' (1931) * ''Cynara'' (1932) * '' Secrets'' (1933) * '' The Way to Love'' (1933) * ''Bolero'' (1934) * '' She Loves Me Not'' (1934) * '' Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1934) * ''The Glass Key'' (1935) * ''Coronado'' (1935) * '' And Sudden Death'' (1936) * '' Rose of the Rancho'' (1936) * '' Lady Be Careful'' (1936) * '' Maid of Salem'' (1937) * ''Wells Fargo'' (1937) * ''If I Were King'' (1938) * '' Her Jungle Love'' (1938) * '' Coc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malibu, California
Malibu ( ; ; ) is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, about west of downtown Los Angeles. It is known for its Mediterranean climate, its strip of beaches stretching along the Pacific Ocean coast, and for its longtime status as the home of numerous affluent Cinema of the United States, Hollywood celebrities and executives. Although a high proportion of its residents are entertainment industry figures with multi-million dollar mansions, Malibu also features several middle-class, middle- and upper-middle class, upper-middle-class neighborhoods. The Pacific Coast Highway (California State Route 1, State Route 1) traverses the city, following along the South Coast (California), South Coast of California. As of the 2020 US Census, 2020 census, the city's population was 10,654. The Palisades Fire, 2025 Palisades Fire devastated Malibu, with almost all of the beachfront homes near its center destroyed. Nicknamed "The 'Bu" by surfers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolero (1934 Film)
''Bolero'' is a 1934 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. The Paramount production was a rare chance for Raft to play a dancer, which had been his profession in New York City, rather than portraying a gangster. The film takes its title from the Maurice Ravel composition ''Boléro'' (1928). The supporting cast includes William Frawley, Ray Milland and Sally Rand. Plot In 1910 New York, Raoul De Baere is a coal miner who wants to be a dancer and tries to persuade his brother Mike to manage him. He dreams of moving to Europe and opening a nightclub in Paris. He does not fare well until he teams with a female partner, Lucy, and they make a success dancing at a beer garden in New Jersey. Lucy is attracted to Raoul but he does not want to mix business with pleasure. Raoul travels to Paris, where he makes a living dancing with elderly women in nightclubs. He finds a dance partner, Leona, and they dance as a tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Jury Secrets
''Grand Jury Secrets'' is a 1939 American mystery film directed by James P. Hogan and written by Irving Reis, Maxwell Shane and Robert Yost. The film stars John Howard, Gail Patrick, William Frawley, Jane Darwell, Porter Hall and Harvey Stephens. The film was released on June 23, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Newspaper reporter and amateur ham radio operator John Keefe, anxious for a scoop, plants a shortwave radio in the courtroom to eavesdrop on the grand jury's investigation into the brokerage house owned by Anthony Pelton and Thomas Reedy, which is allegedly dealing in fraudulent stocks. When the story breaks in the newspaper under John's byline, John's brother Michael, the assistant district attorney, is castigated by his boss. Nevertheless, John continues to jeopardize his brother's career and decides to infiltrate the brokerage house by posing as Avery, a wealthy young investor from the South. In a meeting at Pelton and Reedy's office, John leaves behind his briefcase, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of Nights
''The Night of Nights'' is a 1939 black-and-white drama film written by Donald Ogden Stewart and directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures that starred Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, and Roland Young. The film received positive contemporary reviews from publications such as ''The New York Times''. Director Milestone went on to other successful productions after the film came out, including '' Ocean's 11'' and '' Pork Chop Hill''. Plot Dan O'Farrell is a brilliant Broadway theater playwright, actor, and producer who has left the business. When he was younger, he and his partner Barry Keith-Trimble were preparing for the opening night of O'Farell's play ''Laughter'' by getting drunk. When it was time to perform, they were so intoxicated they ended up brawling on stage and fell into the orchestra pit. The two left the theater and continued drinking, until they learn that they have been suspended. At the same time, O'Farrell learns that his wife, actress Alyce Martelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocoanut Grove (film)
''Cocoanut Grove'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Alfred Santell, and written by Sy Bartlett and Olive Cooper. The film stars Fred MacMurray, Harriet Hilliard, Ben Blue, Eve Arden, Rufe Davis, Billy Lee and George Walcott. The film was released on May 20, 1938, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Johnny Prentice, a bandleader in Chicago with a bad temper, alienates some of his musicians and is in danger of losing custody of Half Pint, his son. He hires Linda Rogers to be the boy's tutor. After being encouraged by Linda to pursue his dream of playing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, they pack up friend Dixie's new trailer and head west. At a trailer park, they run into Hula Harry and hear a song he's composed. To his amazement, Johnny discovers that not only is Harry very talented, Linda is, too. The trailer breaks down in Kansas, but the good news is that garage owner Bibb Tucker is a talented fellow as well. He is invited to tag along. When the group reaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Jungle Love
''Her Jungle Love'' is a 1938 American South Seas adventure film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland. Portions of the film were shot at Palm Springs, California.here for Table of Contents Plot Two pilots (Ray Milland, Lynne Overman) on a rescue mission meet a white jungle girl (Dorothy Lamour) in the South Seas. Cast * Dorothy Lamour as Tura * Ray Milland as Bob Mitchell * Lynne Overman as Jimmy Wallace * J. Carrol Naish as Kuasa * Virginia Vale as Eleanor Martin (as Dorothy Howe) * Jonathan Hale Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley; March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. Life and career Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Co ... as J.C. Martin * Archie Twitchell as Roy Atkins * Jiggs (chimpanzee) as Gaga References External links * * * 1938 films 1930s color films 1938 adventure films American adventur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If I Were King
''If I Were King'' is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy, and was directed by Frank Lloyd, with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges. Plot In Paris, which has long been besieged by the Burgundians, François Villon is the despair of Father Villon, the priest who took him in and raised him from the age of six. Father Villon takes François to mass after his latest escapade (robbing a royal storehouse). There François spies a beautiful woman, Katherine DeVaucelles. Entranced, he tries to strike up an acquaintance, reciting one of his poems (from which the film takes its title) and pretending it was written specially for her. On the surface, she is unmoved, but when soldiers come to take him into custody, she provides him with an alibi. The crafty King Louis XI of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Fargo (film)
''Wells Fargo'' is a 1937 American historical western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Joel McCrea, Bob Burns and Frances Dee.Pitts p.388 It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay comes upon a broken-down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor and her mother a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a delivery of fresh oysters. The ladies endure a very bumpy ride, and he arrives in time to enable his employer, Henry Wells, to impress some bankers with the speed of his service. Wells sends him to set up a branch office in St. Louis, which is quite convenient, as the Pryors reside there. MacKay and Justine begin seeing each other, though her mother disapproves, as does Justine's more socially prominent suitor, Talbot Carter. Impressed with MacKay, in 1846, Wells sends him to open trails to California. MacKay takes along Hank York, a frontie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maid Of Salem
''Maid of Salem'' is a 1937 American historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Harvey Stephens. It was made and distributed by Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, Plot A young girl in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him. Cast Reception Writing for ''The Spectator'' in 1937, Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a re ... gave the film a mildly positive review, describing the dialogue as "pompously period", but praising the story as one allowing for "a little authentic horror [] to creep in". (reprinted in: ) References External links * * * 1937 films Paramount Pictures films 1930s English-language films American historical d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Be Careful
''Lady Be Careful'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Theodore Reed and written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Harry Ruskin, adapted from the play by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Knox Robinson. The film stars Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, Buster Crabbe, Grant Withers, and Irving Bacon. The film was released on September 4, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Lew Ayres as Chester aka Dynamite * Mary Carlisle as Billie 'Stonewall' Jackson * Benny Baker as Barney * Buster Crabbe as Jake * Grant Withers as Lt. Loomis *Irving Bacon as Happy * Barbara Barondess as Dode *Sheila Bromley as Hazel *Wilma Francis as Bernice *Ethel Sykes as Dancer * Murray Alper as Mattie *Jack Chapin as Herb *Wesley Barry as Texas *Nick Lukats as Tim *Purnell Pratt as Father *Jack Adair as Sydney *Josephine McKim as Alice *Jennifer Gray as Girl in Sailboat *Bobbie Koshay as Girl in Sailboat *Irene Bennett as Girl in Sailboat * Ellen Drew as Girl in Sailboat *Louise St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Of The Rancho (1936 Film)
''Rose of the Rancho'' is a 1936 American action film directed by Marion Gering and written by Frank Partos, Charles Brackett, Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman, adapted from the play of the same name by David Belasco and Richard Walton Tully. The film stars John Boles, Gladys Swarthout, Charles Bickford, Grace Bradley, Willie Howard and Herb Williams. It was released on January 10, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Plot summary Joe Kincaid, the leader of an organised gang of land-grabbers, is taking advantage of a loophole in the law to appropriate land in California in 1852. California has only recently been surrendered by Mexico to the United States to be admitted to the union. Joe uses the loophole in the law, whereby the title-deeds of current landowners are not recognised, to claim the legitimate plunder of the land. The law was unable to cope with the conflict created by the outlaws, and many of the landowners lost their homes and means. Rosita Castro, the daughter of lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Sudden Death
''And Sudden Death'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Charles Barton and written by Joseph Moncure March. The film stars Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, and Tom Brown; with supporting actors Billy Lee, Fuzzy Knight, Terry Walker and Porter Hall. The film was released on June 16, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Betty Winslow and others in her family are reckless drivers, and Lt. Knox of the police is determined to make her change her ways after repeated traffic violations. Betty eventually reforms, but when drunken brother Jackie gets behind the wheel of a car and causes an accident, Betty takes the blame and goes to prison. Jackie's guilty conscience ultimately gets the better of him, freeing Betty to get on with her life, as well as a romantic future with Lt. Knox. Cast *Randolph Scott as Police Lt. James Knox * Frances Drake as Betty Winslow * Tom Brown as Jackie Winslow * Billy Lee as Bobby Sanborn *Fuzzy Knight as Steve Bartlett *Terry Walker as Bangs *Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
